Symplocos. POLYANDRIA -MONOGYNIA. 54 
Lodh, the bark is meant, Bura Hur (Myrobolana Che- 
bula. Mat. Med. Terminalia chebula Roxb. ) of each one 
chatuk, or two ounces, pound and rub them with water on 
a stone ; mix them up with water, and steep the cloth in it, 
then dry it. Take onechatwk of alum, dissolve it in water, 
and boil it, put the cloth into this solution, and let it boil 
for an hour, then wash and dry it. Then take Al, viz. Mor- 
inda tinctoria. Roxb. one chatuk Dhawra flowers, Gris- 
lea tomentosa. Roxb. one chatak Munjeet Rubia Mun- 
jeet. Roxb. half a seer, nearly a pound, separately, mix 
_them with lukewarm water, and let it boil. Then put in 
the cloth, and let it remain boiling for forty minutes. 
Aboor the red powder used by the natives during the 
Hoolee holidays is made about Kheerpaee, of the bark of 
this tree. 
2. S. spicata. Roxb. 
Leaves from lanceolar to oblong-serrate, acute. Spikes 
axillary, compound. Drupes, curceolate-torose ; nut one- 
celled, one-seeded. 
Booree, the vernacular name in Silhet, where it is in- 
digenous, growing to be a middle-sized tree. It flowers in 
August, and the seeds ripen in the cold season. They 
are very hard, about the size of a pea, and resemble a mi- 
nute fluted pitcher; when bored, they are strung like 
beads, and by the natives put round the necks of their chil- | 
dren, to preventevil. The nuts only of Nageia Putranjiva 
are employed in the same manner, and for the same end. 
Young shoots smooth and straight. Leaves alternate, 
short-petioled, from lanceolar to oblong-serrate, acumi- 
nate, smooth, texture hard, and in drying turn yellow; from 
four to six inches long and one anda half broad. Stipules 
none. Spikes axillary, solitary, compound, I may say 
panicled, scarcely half the length of the leaves, smooth. 
owers numerous, sessile, small, scattered, yellow. 
Bractes three, roundish, concave and ciliate, embracing 
